A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.

Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it. Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with there capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated.

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.